Are Dreams Instructive? — What Autoethnographic Research Might Reveal about Trump’s Rhetoric Richard Cherwitz·July 26, 2019Our dreams often are unsettling. Sometimes, however, they also provide a unique picture of and insight into reality,...Commentary·0 Comments·0
Trump’s Rhetorical Stonewalling Strategy Richard Cherwitz·May 13, 2019President Donald J. Trump and members of his administration are stonewalling on the issue of the Mueller report...Commentary·0 Comments·0
President [Noselaugh] Trump and the Question of Character Rosa A. Eberly·March 14, 2019“It’s demoralizing. It’s unfair.” Jan. 28, 2019, was her first day back at work in five weeks, yet...Commentary·0 Comments·0
Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault Jennifer Mercieca·March 1, 2019This article originally appeared in The Conversation on February 27, 2019. Michael Cohen, who admits to lying, also...Commentary·0 Comments·0
What Can ‘The Favourite’ Tell Us about the Rhetoric of Queer Letters? Pamela VanHaitsma·February 22, 2019With the Academy Awards scheduled for this week, there’s plenty of buzz about “The Favourite.” It tops this...Commentary·0 Comments·0
One Rhetorician’s Read of Trump’s Second State of the Union Richard Cherwitz·February 7, 2019There are eight observations that really stood out to me, a communication scholar of over 40 years, in...Commentary·0 Comments·0
In Defense of an Open Society John M. Murphy·January 28, 2019The New York Times celebrated a new year by updating its archive of the people, places, and things...Commentary·0 Comments·0
Government #ShutDown and Stasis Jonathan L. Bradshaw·January 24, 2019American public discourse has worked itself into knots again. Amid the recent government shutdown and deliberation over President...Commentary·0 Comments·0
Disrupting the Trump Monologue John Rountree·December 27, 2018Two weeks before Christmas, news audiences were treated to a rare spectacle in the Oval Office: a bickering...Commentary·0 Comments·0
If Dems are elected, they’ll do what we’ve been doing! Patricia Roberts-Miller·November 2, 2018Recently, a common claim (what scholars of rhetoric would call a topos) has emerged among Trump and GOP...Commentary·0 Comments·0